I have lurked here for about a month, & have not run across any talk of what I would assume would be a common issue - & that is the spouse disagreeing with the ER issue! ! !
I have just recently verbalized to my wife(& myself really) of my intentions to at least semi ER. Actually, this has been a creeping process as my sole pro. service business has been in gradual decline for about 3 years, & consequently work only about 10-20 hrs/wk.
She works full time but hates her job & I sense some resentment (not verbalized) or perhaps jealousy with my admittedly suspicious lifestyle of working "sometimes"! The wife will come home tonight after a hard week at the office & ask what I did today & I will respond "shoveled snow, did the dishes, & played on the net". She will smirk & I will say that I've worked hard & saved all my life & at 55 I can afford to semi ER & enjoy the fruits of my labor. We have never argued about this issue, but I do detect "something" brewing beneath the surface.
Surely there have to be similar issues with others on this forum. Or do you all magically & blissfully come to the same conclusion at the same time about ER? Are things ever EZ in this world?
I have just recently verbalized to my wife(& myself really) of my intentions to at least semi ER. Actually, this has been a creeping process as my sole pro. service business has been in gradual decline for about 3 years, & consequently work only about 10-20 hrs/wk.
She works full time but hates her job & I sense some resentment (not verbalized) or perhaps jealousy with my admittedly suspicious lifestyle of working "sometimes"! The wife will come home tonight after a hard week at the office & ask what I did today & I will respond "shoveled snow, did the dishes, & played on the net". She will smirk & I will say that I've worked hard & saved all my life & at 55 I can afford to semi ER & enjoy the fruits of my labor. We have never argued about this issue, but I do detect "something" brewing beneath the surface.
Surely there have to be similar issues with others on this forum. Or do you all magically & blissfully come to the same conclusion at the same time about ER? Are things ever EZ in this world?